„I think he’s crude, I think he’s medieval, and I don’t want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. I don’t have the dreams that he discusses in his books. I don’t see umbrellas in my dreams. Or balloons.“

— Vladimir Nabokov

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„I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.“
— Malcolm X
„I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.“
— A.A. Milne
„He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.“
— Lewis Carroll
„I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don’t even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he’s worthy of even considering it, and I just don’t see that happening.“
— P. C. Cast
„Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.“
— Hans Christian Andersen
„And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.“
— Stephen King
„My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„It’s that I think Will is angry with me,” Tessa explained. “So whatever he told you—”He laughed. “Will is angry with everyone,” he said. “I don’t let it color my judgment.“
— Cassandra Clare